Excerpt from Methods of Financing Farmer Cooperatives This study of the financing methods and problems of farmer cooperatives is based on replies from 898 local and 259 regional associations, a total of marketing and farm supply cooperatives. These represent almost 60 percent of the 433 regionals (exclusive of bargaining associations) listed with Farmer Cooper ative Service and just under 10 percent of the locals. Data' reported here are for the associations used in the study, except for the national estimates which are for the entire list (exclusive of bargaining associations) of market ing and farm supply associations. All data were obtained for association fiscal years ending in 1954. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.